• Chilled cucumber soup

    Serves: 6
    Cooking Time: 10 mins

    Ingredients

    • 2 cucumbers, peeled and diced
    • 200g tomatoes, blanched and peeled
    • 100ml good-quality chicken stock
    • 5ml Tabasco
    • salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
    • 300g plain yoghurt
    • 250ml fresh cream
    • 10ml fresh mint, to garnish

    Instructions

    1

    Place the cucumber, tomato, chicken stock and Tabasco in a blender and finely purée. Season to taste.

    2

    Whisk in the yoghurt and cream.

    3

    Serve the cucumber soup in small bowls or espresso cups, garnished with chopped mint.